My first question after accepting this assignment: “Where the heck did the name Huldra (pronounced “Hool-dra”) come from?” Was it a combination of the founders’ names or what? The answer is on the Huldra Arms website:
“In Norwegian folklore, the sometimes naked, mythically mysterious and tricky Huldra is a stunningly beautiful woman with long hair and a cow’s tail that lives in the forest realm of the trolls. In order to hide her tail, the Huldra can disguise herself as a typical dairymaid, wearing the clothes of a regular farm girl, although the Huldra can never hide that she is more dazzling and prettier than other girls. She has long been associated with hunting and shooting; she might be induced to blow down the barrel of a rifle, causing the rifle thereafter to never miss a shot.”
Huldra Arms’ AR-15s are proprietary products of Mills Fleet Farm stores, which is a cool factor in and of itself, harkening back to the days when most hardware and department stores, such as Sears and Montgomery Ward, also sold firearms, which were considered tools back then, just like any of the other tools that were offered for sale. Mills Fleet Farm stores are a family operation, with stores located in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, which tends to explain the reference to Norwegian mythology in its AR-15 line. It is a very popular enterprise in that region.
Huldra rifles are manufactured exclusively by Adams Arms, and they all utilize Adams Arms’ proprietary gas piston system. In fact, no direct impingement guns are in the Huldra lineup. Adams Arms was one of the earliest producers of piston-operated guns, and it was the first manufacturer to offer a patented retrofit system to convert direct impingement guns to its gas piston system. The result is a line of rifles very appealing to the LE officer looking for a non-direct-impingement AR-platform rifle for patrol duty.
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